WLB on average is good, though not as good for many since the latest layoffs in Jan. Culture has always been Twitch's strength as a platform and work environment - lots of friendly and collaborative people.
Over 50% of the company was laid off in the past year. Two massive layoffs March 2023 and Jan 2024, with smaller silent axes in between. Company has hunkered down with Amazon pressure, and growth is not available anymore outside maybe a few small pockets. Those looking to grow their career have left or are planning to.
Has anyone interviewed at both #twitch and #amazon and can share differences and similarities? Does twitch employ amazons bar raiser format? TIA. 230
We've all been hearing about these bigger offers recently from Amazon, as high as 500-600 for L6 (Senior SDE). Is Twitch following suit or are they still in the 300k ballpark? Also, will the raised salary cap also apply to Twitch in the short term or will they have to wait for that to trickle down. ...Read more
I got an offer from twitch. The recruiter tries to convince me to start before Oct 1 and said it would allow me to be eligible for the merit salary raise next year. But the base they offered me is already close to the limit. Would the company raise the bonus in that case? Another concern is that joi...Read more
Promo cycle coming up and manager just resigned. Therefore looking for referrals to Remote/Canada SWE positions. 300 LC Grokking System Design and Patterns TT @ Amazon, raised bar each review TC: 180k YOE: 2.5 Looking for #dropbox #twitch #twitter #google #apple #meta #mongodb #brex #chime ...Read more
I have two offers from: Uber Twitch I don’t want to leave my current role because I like my job and i’m also 20-30% in my visa/gc process at Microsoft. For those that know about the process, my PD is current. My competing offers show that i’m being paid really crappy here. I want to “vwmf” but if ...Read more
Hi folks, My friend had to shut down his startup recently (had raised $600K) and is now looking for referrals for PM jobs. Posting on his behalf as he doesn't have an official email id. If you can help, please comment so that I can DM you. PM Experience: 5 years Total Experience: 7 years #pm #pr...Read more
Now, since we have the war going on I went in to check what Russian speaking domain is saying on twitch. I was speechless to see streamers doing the work for Putin with stream names like "come and watch my stream instead of news". Which is exactly what the Russian government wants, total compliance....Read more
Amazonians have lost their way. Layoffs, losing market share, betting the farm on Retail sales strength. Wasting millions on office space people don't want to work in. Ruining the Lord of the Rings. Having agressive recruiters that spam everyone then firing those people. What happened? Can no one ra...Read more
I'll trade a referral at Careem for a referral at any tech company that pays competitively in SF, seattle or nyc EDIT: We're also hiring for our Berlin office. Not interested? I'd still appreciate a referral.☺️ Careem is Uber's competitor in this region (middle east north africa) and 1 of only 2 u...Read more
Hi, I’m a recent grad international student (masters in computer science). I have been searching for data roles for a while. So far no 🍀 luck. Currently, working at a startup, Generative AI (LLMs) recently raised fund from AWS) while searching a full time role. I have some work experience back �...Read more
Salesforce will pause all hiring in technology and product divisions, including in its chat subsidiary Slack, according to a message from Ross Harmes, chief of staff to the Slack CTO, seen by Fortune. “This isn’t our first rodeo with hiring pauses, but it’s definitely disruptive and will affect our...Read more
We are hiring new grads at Rippling. Reach out to me for referrals. We just raised a series D funding round. Latest news in Rippling: https://www.rippling.com/blog/rippling-hires-albert-strasheim-as-cto-svp-engineering https://www.rippling.com/blog/rippling-raises-250m-in-series-d-funding Check ou...Read more
Fraud and deception I only applied to the ARC program after seeing an interview from Jess Lee and Emily Chang, Jess described ARC as the program for outlier founders who often GET OVER LOOKED FOR FUNDING. however when you look at who was chosen for this batch, how tf are 90% of these selected found...Read more
We are hiring at Rippling for a lot of positions. Reach out to me for referrals. We just raised a series D funding round last month. Have a lot of cash in the bank. No fear of layoffs! Latest news in Rippling: https://www.rippling.com/blog/rippling-hires-albert-strasheim-as-cto-svp-engineering http...Read more
We are hiring at Rippling for a lot of positions. Reach out to me for referrals. Check out the open roles https://www.rippling.com/careers/open-roles DM me with the open position and your resume with a google drive link. Latest news in Rippling: https://www.rippling.com/blog/rippling-hires-albert-s...Read more
Been seeing a lot of confusion on Amzn's comp structure so decided to do a PSA here. This way, people can effectively evaluate their offers Amzn's comp structure is determined by your job family, level, and geography. Each combination puts you in a band, which dictates how much you would make as a ...Read more
We are hiring at Rippling for a lot of positions. Reach out to me for referrals. We just raised a series D funding round last month. Have a lot of cash in the bank. No fear of layoffs! Some open positions: Senior Software Engineer - Frontend and Backend both(Min 7 YOE) (Bengaluru) Software Engineer...Read more
We are hiring at Rippling for a lot of positions. Reach out to me for referrals. We recently opened many new roles in the Platform team to accelerate our delivery on a massive roadmap spanning Reports, Dashboards, RQL, and Universal Objects (which will power many new apps!) Rippling in recent news:...Read more
NYT spent the past ten weeks interviewing people and gathering evidence and testimony about the day. Text below since the link is paywalled. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/22/world/europe/beeri-massacre.html MASSACRE AT BE’ERI was not a single outburst of violence, over in a terrifyi...Read more